CDP Publications

For identifying concrete policies and strategies that helped LDC in building productive capacities, the CDP reviewed the experiences of fourteen countries in developing productive capacity and the implications for graduation and economic transformation.

CDP Policy Review No. 6 By Teresa Lenzi This paper analyzes the advantages that LDCs have derived from the various LDC-specific international support measures due to their LDC status. It identi­fies the reasons why some UN development system organizati ...

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This paper analyzes opportunities for growth in Nepal by applying the policy tool of New Structural Economics – Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF).

This paper examines the process of building productive capacity in Ethiopia over the past two decades and the roles played by the state, government, the private sector, foreign firms and development partners.

CDP Policy Review No. 5 By Keith Nurse The paper reviews the provisions within the WTO multilateral trade regime which impact on the policy space for LDCs which are interested in pursuing industrial policies as latecomers. It finds that LDCs are more c ...

CDP Policy Review No. 4 By Stephan Klasen, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann and Matthias Bruckner The paper investigates the effectiveness of trade preferences for LDCs. It confirms that overall trade preferences for LDCs increase L ...

CDP Policy Review No. 3 By Tea Petrin The paper overviews the evidence of good governance institutional reform agenda on the development outcomes of LDCs. For building development governance capacity in LDC for achieving sustainable development goals, ...

CDP Policy Review No. 2 By Keun Lee The paper discusses two ways of building productive capacity in LDCs: the manufacture of products to foreign buyers’ specifications, and the integration of resource-based sectors into global value chains using backwa ...